> From: Hazel Russman <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 07:59:58 +0100
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Glib-2.48.2 tests hang
>
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:33:21 +0100
> [email protected] (akhiezer) wrote:
>
> > > From: Hazel Russman <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 11:28:52 +0100
> > > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Glib-2.48.2 tests hang
> > >
> > .
> > .
> > > I'm working in chroot because I want to be able to copy and paste from
> > > the book, which for some reason stopped working in text-based Links
> > > a couple of years ago. I know from earlier posts that other people do
> > > this too in the early stages of BLFS. Perhaps a warning note might be
> > > useful here.
> > >
> >
> > links:
> > * copy: hold down shift key while highlighting.
> > * paste: hold down shift key while middle-click (or whatever mouse btn
> > you've got 'paste' mapped to).
> >
> Thanks, akh. That's a life-saver. I was using it all yesterday evening.
- yr welcome, 's no probs.
(In ~extremis, links' -dump & related opts (e.g. '-width') can still be
useful to get a set of text-versions of pages; tho' hopefully scripted
and not done manually one at a time.)
> btw you don't need to use the shift key when pasting into a console, just
> middle-click. It was the copy operation that stymied me.
>
I meant, pasting into links - e.g. into a search/text box.
>
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>
> Ed Batalha suggested using lynx rather than links. I assume
> he meant that it's easier to copy from. But if you're used to using links,
> lynx is completely impossible. It's too similar without being the same. I
> did once attempt to use it and it nearly drove me crazy.
>
Fwiw, in out-of-the-box state, I orig & still prefer links (incl
'links -g ...', with patch for large-ish default cursor) to lynx; &
have explored links quite a bit more than lynx. But, I do like to use
lynx reasonably often; likewise for various other 'non-main' (here)
software/os/hardware/&c.
akh
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